deep-thought

Strategic CTO advisor grounded in the CTO canon (Larson, Fournier, Majors, DHH, Fowler, Team Topologies, DORA, Cagan) and AI-era realities. Use when facing leadership, strategy, organizational, or stakeholder challenges — not code-level problems. Applies frameworks situationally, challenges framing before solving, produces concrete artifacts.

Infrastructure code review for Terraform/OpenTofu, Helm charts, Kubernetes manifests, Dockerfiles, and CI/CD pipelines. Runs validation pipelines and checks security contexts, resource limits, and deployment safety. Use when reviewing infrastructure changes.

Detective agent that follows evidence trails to find root causes, bugs, and hidden problems. Uses Sherlock (deduction), Poirot (psychology/intent), and Columbo (what's missing) lenses. Works on code, performance, architecture, data, and systems.

Performance-focused code review analyzing N+1 queries, algorithmic complexity, memory usage, scaling projections, and SLO compliance. Use when reviewing changes to hot paths, database queries, or performance-critical code.

Python-specialized code review with focus on type safety, async correctness, Pydantic validation, SQLAlchemy session handling, and FastAPI patterns. Use when reviewing PRs or files that are predominantly Python code (.py files).

Deep research agent. Scans codebase, docs, past brainstorms, and solutions to surface context for brainstorming and discovery. Use when exploring a new problem area or gathering context before brainstorming.

Deep security review with OWASP Top 10, auth patterns, secret management, input validation, and adversarial threat modeling. Use for security-sensitive changes — auth, data access, secrets handling, external inputs, or when a quick security scan isn't enough.

Focused code review with Critical Trust. One deep review instead of nine shallow ones. Use when reviewing PRs, branch diffs, or specific files for quality, correctness, and convention adherence.

TypeScript-specialized code review with focus on type narrowing, hook dependencies, RTK Query cache invalidation, Effect-TS layers, and Drizzle patterns. Use when reviewing PRs or files that are predominantly TypeScript/JavaScript code (.ts, .tsx, .js, .jsx files).

Turn brainstorm decisions into user stories, architecture doc, and ADRs. Use after brainstorming to define WHAT to build and HOW it fits together. Standalone or pipeline-aware via env vars. Triggers: architect, stories, architecture, design, ADR, define stories, write stories.

Deep architectural review of a platform or product — cross-references code against claims, maps failure modes, evaluates scaling bottlenecks, and produces a decision-grade handoff document with ADRs. Use when: reviewing an existing system for scaling readiness, performing a CTO handoff, evaluating platform architecture for enterprise readiness, or auditing a codebase before a major migration. Triggers: architecture review, scaling review, platform review, CTO handoff, system audit, scaling analysis, architecture assessment, production readiness.

Collaborative discovery before planning. Explore the problem space, evaluate approaches, surface past work, and produce a structured brainstorm document. Triggers: brainstorm, explore, discovery, ideate, think through, what should we build, explore approaches.

Meta-skill that generates and refines SKILL.md files using the 12 prompting techniques as a quality checklist. The skill that writes skills. Triggers: craft skill, create skill, generate skill, write skill, skill template, meta prompt, improve skill, refine skill.

Strategic CTO advisor with structured sub-commands. Helps technical leaders navigate architecture decisions, organizational design, stakeholder communication, and AI-era challenges. Each sub-command applies a specific framework and produces a concrete artifact. Triggers: cto, pivot cost, hire case, decision map, tech strategy, team health, board prep, ai audit.

Multi-framework content review with convergent synthesis. Each lens applies a named analytical framework — grounded in published source material, not persona impersonation — to the target content. Parallel dispatch, web research or user-provided references, convergent synthesis, prioritized action list. Triggers: expert panel, expert review, expert audit, panel review, multi-lens review, framework review, content audit, workshop audit, strategy review, get expert feedback, advisory review.

Strategy-forward product cartography. Articulates the goal, grounds the analysis in domain research, commits to a strategic thesis, then maps three mutually-exclusive futures that execute it — each with a user's love-letter, required capability, what it excludes, and a next move you can hand to your agent. Auto-invokes /babel-fish:visualize for the visual map. Use when exploring "where could this go," forcing a strategic commitment, or stress-testing a product idea for lovability. Triggers: improbable futures, product futures, where could this go, map my project, lovable product, cartographer, product atlas, product strategy.

Detective-style investigation that follows evidence trails to find root causes, bugs, inconsistencies, and hidden problems. Works on code, performance, architecture, data, and systems. Three investigative lenses: Sherlock (deduction), Poirot (psychology/intent), Columbo (what's missing). Triggers: investigate, debug, detective, find bug, root cause, what's wrong, diagnose, trace, why is this broken, what happened.

Strategic planning with auto-calibrated detail, decision rationale, and dependency ordering. Use when starting a new feature, bug fix, refactor, or any non-trivial work. Produces a plan document with tasks, reasoning, and acceptance criteria. Triggers: plan, planning, create plan, implementation plan, feature plan, work plan.

Focused review of code, documents, or architecture — one deep pass with evidence-based findings and clear verdict. Auto-detects what you're reviewing: branch diff, PR, file path, plan, brainstorm, or spec. One reviewer that reads carefully beats nine that skim. Triggers: review, code review, review PR, review diff, review plan, review brainstorm, review spec, review document, evaluate, check.

Deep reasoning for complex decisions — expert panel simulation, devil's advocate, what-if scenarios, and structured tradeoff analysis. Use when a decision has high stakes, multiple valid approaches, or you need to stress-test your thinking. Triggers: think, think through, analyze, expert panel, devil's advocate, what if, tradeoff, decision, weigh options, stress test, second opinion.